I think what is happening there is that we were able to get some geolocation data back from your IP, but a standard City, State format isn't available (for whatever reason).
You are right, though, that is very confusing. In the event that happens in the future, we will need to leave that field blank so users (such as yourself) can manually enter a location.
When you just have a few days that could be freed up to learn something, you don't want to commit to a 6-10 weeks courses like in Coursera or Udacity, so a shorter, denser course like this will fit perfectly, I think.
But, fonts look pretty awful in chrome and firefox.
The website look great, after sign up I got email update almost immediately, but I don't seems to find a way to login directly from the website, the login button ask for password, which I never prompt to create, and if I choose forgot password and enter the email address, which is to receive a reset password I presume, it complain that it is a wrong email address.
Switching career and get a programming job, would love it to be something in Ruby on Rails. Be it permanent, remote, freelance, part time, whatever.
I tried different approaches this year, so far nothing come out of it. One gig was discontinued as the owner decided to switch to a local developer. The other project took half a year now and still no further progress from the owner. Just attended an interview which didn't work out.
As someone already mentioned, have fun with my son. Am teaching him Scratch at the moment, hopefully can complete a simple game by end of November :-)
Nice to find someone who's sharing goals with me. Though I have to admit I'm not exactly new in programming, my goal for this month is to learn programming concepts (algorithms etc.) in order to prepare myself for the switch to RoR.
I must clarify that I'm beginning with Python mostly because I'm having trouble finding good programming lessons that use Ruby.
